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Mrs. WILLiAM MCKINLEY. —From a photograph, June, I89G. 



Sketch of the Life 



Gi 



Mrs. William McKinley 



BY 

Josiah'Hartzell, Ph. D. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 

THE HOW! MAGAZINE PRESS. 
MDCCCXCVI. 



33 



COPYRIGHTED, 1896. 
HOME MAGAZINE COM PAN" 



Sketch of the Life 
of 

Mrs. William M c K i n 1 e y 

Chapter I . 
Fathers and Mothers. 

"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife 
Their sober wishes never Learned to stray; 
Along the cool, sequestered vale of life 
They kept the even tenor of their way." 

VISITORS to Canton, in the State of Ohio, cannot help 
carrying away with them pleasing memories of the 
thrifty little city. True, there is no wide expanse of water, 

no mountain, no level plain. But 
it is a county seat, and the central 
mart of a most fertile and fruitful 
agricultural region. Within its 
limits two beautiful streams with 
old Indian names are clasped to- 
gether and ripple southward to 
join the brimming river which has 
christened the famous Common- 
wealth with its own mellifluous 
name. L,ow, forest-tufted hills en- 
circle the city's site, but keep at a 
respectful distance, their gentle 
slopes flecked with straight-rowed 
orchards from whose green bosoms 
gleam the big, red barns of plenty , 
and with the deft and varied tilth 
whereby the old-fashioned, Penn- 
sylvania Dutch farmer knows how- 
to gladden the eye. 
The city has, they say, about forty thousand inhabitants. 
It has wide, clean-paved streets, and in respect to the 
latter-day things that water, steam, gas, and electricity can 
do, it is, and has, all that science and art can give. The 

public buildings tower up like exclamation points emphasiz- 
es) 




Mrs. James A. Saxton. 
Mrs. Janes A. Saxton was t lie moth 
er of Mrs. William McKinley. Sh< 
<lied in 1S73. 



6 SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 

ing the aspect of solid thrift and the go-ahead spirit of the 
people. 

There is one drawback— about two hundred smoke-stacks 
fringe the periphery of the inhabited district. By the help 
of the bituminous coals, which are everywhere to be had by 
simply digging downwards, these tall chimneys are able to 
charge passing air currents with insinuative qualities that knit 
the brows of tidy housewives. There is, however, a good deal 
of tolerance accorded to the smoke-stacks in their quality as 
pioneers of all the other costly improvements, and as the real 




The Old Saxton Residence. 
This is the old Saxton homestead in which Mrs. MeKinley was horn and 

raised. It was also the temporary ho of Major and Mrs. .MeKinley during 

Congressional vacations. It numbers anion- its -nests of former 5 ears many 
historic names. From its veranda, fronting on the street. General and sen- 
ator Sherman. Blaine, Garfield, Hayes, Logan, Vice-president Wilson, Justices 

Chase and Matthews. Foraker. Generals Crook and MeCook, Hannibal Hamlin. 

Col. Fred (.rant and Secretary Foster, have been introduced and made speeches 
to Canton audiences. This house is n <>\\ the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Mar 
shall Barber. Mrs. Barber, Mrs. MeKinley's sister, has been mistress of the 
house since her mother's death, in 1878. 

transformers of the beautiful village into the more prosperous 
city. 

Awav back in 1S15 the form of Canton's nucleus had been 
already marked out by the surveyor. Houses had clustered 
about the central square, and street routes pushed their course 
out a little way into surrounding thickets of forest and ha/eh 
brush. There were only a few hundred inhabitants, but the 
site was sightly, and the surroundings were full of that good- 



FATHERS AND MOTHERS. 



uess of promise to the chief county town which has since 
been so amply justified. Near the end of February in that 
year, 1S15, an ox-team drove up into the square, drawing a 
wagon upon which stood a strange device— a huge, upright, 
twisty, clumsy form of iron. From its one side projected an 

iron track, and from its other side 
a club-handle of wood— it was the 
printing press of John Saxtou. 
Nearly three generations have 
come and gone, but the iron feet 
of the old press still have their 
strong grasp on the floor in a cor- 
ner of the printing establishment 
which they stoutly carried for- 
ward for many, man)' years. 

Saxtou got his press and type- 
boxes into a quickly-built shed of 
new-sawed boards, and issued his 
first paper, one of the first in the 
new State of Ohio, on March 15. 
Three months after that, to a day, 
was fought the battle of Waterloo. 
And three months after that, 
September 15, the news of Wel- 
lington's victory, coming by sail 
and stage-coach, was printed in 
" The particulars of the second 
the battle of Sedan, fought Sep- 




John Saxton. 

John Saxton was for many years 
known as the N estor of Ohio editors. 
Id' founded the Ohio Repository in 1815 
and remained it* chief until 1871. He 
was Mis. McKinley's in-anUfatlier. 



Mr. Saxton's "Repository 

Napoleonic Waterloo, of 

tember 4, 1870, were also pointed by Mr. Saxton, but this time 

on the evening of the same day. 

This curious measure of continuous service has had few par- 
allels, either in respect to duration or the importance of the 
steps of the world's progress, of which Mr. Saxton's paper had 
been the witness and the chronicler. Politically, he was first a 
Whig, then a Republican. Having pitched his tent among a 
class of people who persisted in voting for Jackson, he was used 
to defeat. He lived to see a great change, and was himself a 
chief instrument in bringing it about. He was, during forty 
years, a Presbyterian elder. Though a man of strong convic- 
tions he was universally respected, and counted among his 



SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 




personal friends many of the most illustrious names in our 
national history. To the writer of this sketch Horace Greeley 
classed Mr. Saxton as one of the most reliable and consistent 
advocates of Whig, and subsequently of Republican and Pro- 
tectionist doctrines in the, then, Western country. Joseph 

Medill, the veteran Chicago edi- 
tor, never approves a sketch of his 
own life which does not contain a 
grateful tribute to the old ' ' Re- 
pository," in which his boyhood 
was first made familiar with the 
current happenings of the world 
two generations ago. The Medill 
and Saxton families are related. 
John Saxton died April 16, 1871. 
His wife, who was a woman of 
sterling qualities, and in all res- 
pects fitted for the companionship 
of so worthy a man, had preceded 
him by thirteen years. 

James A. Saxton was John 
Saxton's oldest son, having been 
born in 1820. After reaching ma- 
turity he was engaged in bank- 
ing, also in large commercial and manufacturing enterprises. 

He was one of the most promi- 
nent and influential men in the AX \ 

region in which he lived. He died 

in 1887. In l8 4-6 he was married 

to Miss Kate Dewalt, a lady whose 

parents were also among the earliest 

settlers in Canton. By the older 

residents of Canton no name is more 

sacredly cherished than that of Mrs. 

Kate Saxton. Nature had endowed 

her with the graces of a perfect 

womanhood, and the home over 

which she presided was one of the 

most attractive social centers in the 

community. The children of Mr. 



Mrs. George Dewalt. 

Mrs. Dewalt was Mrs. McKinley"s ma- 
ternal grandmother. She died in 1869. 




James A. Saxton 



Mr. James A. Saxton was Mr-. 
William McKlnley 's father. Fie was 
our of the most Influential and 
prominent citizens <>f Canton dur- 
ing his active life. He died in iss: at 
and Mrs. Saxton were ueorge, Ida the age of 67 years. 



FATHERS AND MOTHERS. 9 

— now Mrs. William McKinley — and Mary B., now Mrs. 
Marshall Barber. All three are residents of Canton at the 
present time. 

A celebrated dictum of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, known to 




William McKinley— father. 

everyone, ascribes much importance to ante-natal influences. 
Prompted by this consideration it has been deemed well to pre- 
sent this short preface by way of introduction to the brief sketch 
of the life of Mrs. William McKinley which occupies the fol- 
lowing pages. 

"The times need men. Not those with Learning's dower 
Ami gifts that make them idols of the hour; 
But men whose hearts are true whose souls are strong 
To breast the current (if mistake and wrong." 



Chapter II 



Girlhood, 

"There is a tide in life's great sea 
Which ebbs and flows for you and me, 
And which, if taken at its fioo 1 
Will surely lead us on to good ; 
But if we wait till it recedes 
Our feet may tangle in the weeds, 
Then our weak and trembling hands 
May never lift us from the sands." 

THE loveliest thing in this world is the morning of life of the 
well-born American girl. I say American girl, because 
across the sea girlhood is different. There the parental watch- 
fulness of daughters is extreme. 
The restrictions there put upon 
the personal liberty of maidens 
would here be regarded as ri- 
diculous and intolerable. 

In well-ordered American 
homes the girls are taught self- 
reliance, self-culture, independ- 
ence. Careful moral training and 
the lofty ideals set by g o o d 
mothers lie at the base of a real 
education that fits them to fight 
thi-ir battles of life and win the 
victor's crown. It is due to these 
Miss Ida saxton, 1868. potent and sturdy influences that 

our European visitors are compelled to such unanimity in 
praise of the freshness, the originality, the self-poise, and the 
surprising beauty of American girls. 

Ida Saxton had all these attractions in fullest measure. 
Her mother, and her mother's mother, who was a member of 
the family until Ida reached womanhood, both were women 
noted for their exact appreciation of all the good and gracious 
domesticities. Under their hands the sweet little English word 
"home" had its idealized meaning rounded out into most 
ample proportions. Colleges and seminaries have their place, 




GIRLHOOD. II 



and their good capabilities, but in the construction of charac- 
ter, of a sweet girlhood and a gentle womanhood, all the edu- 
cation they are capable of giving dwindles in comparison with 
the precept and example of su h a mother as Ida Saxtcn was 
blessed with. Good education, or good habits, which are about 
the same thing, make good deeds easy and bad ones difficult. 
These were part of her mother's dowry. 

Her father lived in a large and easy way. He was of im- 
posing stature physically, and a man of broad mental grasp. 
In the battle of life he won both 
distinction and fortune, for his time. 
He was most indulgent with his 
household gods ; among whom his H 

beautiful daughter stood on a high 
pedestal. v J" 

Of course Ida went to the city A ^ 

school. The Cautonians are exact- mu 

ing about their schools. For many 
years their motto has been: The best 
is not too good. One of her 
teachers was Betsy Cowles, sister !"'._„ 

J , Mrs. Marshall Barber, 

of Edwin Cowles, a noted journal- Mrs. Barber is Mrs. McKinley's only 
• , i r- ,ji .. n r 4.v, Q m^TT^1o.ir1 sister. Her husband is a manufac- 

ist and founder of the Cleveland u ^ r The Barber famil3 resides In 

"Leader." She was an apt learner, the old Saxton homestead at Canton. 

and her advancement speedily warranted the superior advan- 
tages offered, first, by a private school at Delhi, New York; 
later, by one in Cleveland, and subsequently by Brook Hall 
Seminary, at Media. Pennsylvania. In the latter institution 
she spent three happy years. Being a girl of that practical, 
sound sense which characterized her race and blood, her 
schooling effectively supplemented her womanly attractions. 

A good deal is said and written now-a-days about the col- 
lege girl. Dry figures even are dragged in to prove that fin- 
ishing schools cast a mildew over girls' social, at any rate, 
their matrimonial prospects. The truth may be that this re- 
sult is after all not so much due to real education as to the lack 
of it; to half education and its sure sequelae of conceited pre- 
tentiousness. From these blemishes Ida Saxton was absolutely 
free. Character building with her had been plain, unvarn- 
ished, solid. When she left Media she was as she is to-day, 
the perfect type of candor and womanly independence. 



12 SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 

In the summer of 1S69 Miss Saxton and her sister Miss Mary 
B. Saxton constituted part of a group of young ladies who 
made a European tour. Made under expert guidance, as this 
trip was, the memory treasures gathered constitute a per- 
petual source of pleasure to their possessor, and of interest to 




First Mathodist Church of Canton. 
Governor and Mrs McKinley have been members of tins congregation many years 
lie was :ii one time superintendent of the Sunday School. He is now a trustee. 

her associates. The return to America was in the fall of the same 
year. With her she brought presents gathered in foreign lands for 
each of the two dozen boys and giils who constituted her Sun- 
day school class. Thes • presents are now exhibited by grown- 
up people as souvenirs with no little exultation. Some of her 
boy scholars have become men of prominence and naturally, 
stand 1 1 i ■ • 1 1 in the Governor's favor. 



GIRLHOOD. 13 

During a few succeeding years Miss Saxton was, as the 
lawyers would say, very much in evidence in the social life of 
Canton. She was young, beautiful, high-minded, independ- 
ent, and her equipment of wit and repartee assured to her the 
quick respect and profound deference of all her associates. 
We will not try to depict the lights and shadows, the varying 
experiences of this iridescent period, for both lights and 
shadows there must be in every picture. But in her case there 
could have been no shadow of any serious disappointment, for 
she was easily, and in every respect, the most attractive figure 
in the social life of the little city. Religiously she belonged 
to the Presbyterian flock. 

Part of these years she spent in the Stark County Bank which 
belonged to her father. As a matter of fact she could, and 
did, run the bank on occasion. It was a diversion; and was 
besides in line with the craving to be helpful, which is the 
quality of a wholesome, healthful character. 

The bees and the birds have their places, and in the easy- 
going old Dutch town of Canton the young gentlemen had the 
bank wicket. " The Traditions of the Wicket" might consti- 
tute a graceful chapter of this history had they not all faded 
from memory — all but one. 

That one has to do with the boyish face and figure of a singu- 
larly handsome young man. To see him no one would have 
suspected that he had already tramped the weary hills of Vi - 
ginia four years through the smoke of war in defence of his 
country. Soldier as he was, he flitted before the wicket and 
was made tight and fast. Pleasure drivers to the woods and 
lakes began to see these two in the lover's lanes — there were 
really three, but the little winged attendant kept discreetly 
out of view. In front of Mr. Saxton' s house was a wide porch 
screened from the street by a net-work of curiously twisted vines. 
Through the meshes of these vines the other wicket-haunters 
began to see visions that induced in them a pale cast of thought. 

In every maiden's life there comes a day hazy with en- 
chanting mysteries. Reveries of future bliss enshroud even 
the pitfalls that may yawn before her forward step. In such 
a moment one man's opinion of another man may be of price- 
less value to her. By this time James A. Saxton knew Major 
McKinley well. He had the clear vision of a practiced man of 



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SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 



affairs. His joyful consent and his father's blessing dispelled 
the mists of doubt, if any there were, and left his daughter 
enveloped in the pure white sunlight of a perfect and loving 
faith. Mr. Saxton lived to see the day when his son-in-law 
became his own strong right arm, and the farther day when he 
had already centered upon himself the approving admiration of 
his countrymen. 

At the time we were speaking of a moment ago the handsome 




Presbyterian Church. 
This i» the church in which Major and Mrs. McKlnley wen- married. 

ex-soldier was superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school. 
At the quadrennial conference of that church held last May 
at Cleveland, Ohio, an attending minister penciled on his knee 
an incident that he had just heard. The editor of one of the 
"Advocates" sat just in front of him. He passed his little 
sheet over to him with this whisper : ' ' Here is an item for your 
paper. " It read thus: 



GIRLHOOD. 



15 



"Nothing more romantic and beautiful in the matter of 
courtship has ever been published than the courtship of the 
next President with the lovely woman who is now his wife- In 
Canton, the town where they resided, she was teacher of a 
large Bible class in the First Presbyterian Church and he the 
superintendent of the Sunday school of the First Methodist 
Episcopal Church. In going to their respective schools they 
passed each other at a certain corner, and found it pleasant to 
stop occasionally and indulge in conversation concerning their 
work. This went on for many months, until, on an ever 
memorable Sunday afternoon in their history, he said to her: 

"I don't like this separation every Sunday, you going one 
way and I another. L,et us change the order. Suppose after 
this we always go the same way. I think that is the thing 
for us to do. What do you think? " 

"I think so, too," was the answer, which gave him the 
most beautiful of wives and her one of the noblest and most de- 
voted of husbands. 

" If there be a human tear 
From passion's dross refined and clear, 
'Tis that which pious fathers shed 
Upon a duteous daughter's head. " 

-[Lady of the Lake.] 



Chapter III. 
Sunshine and Eclipse. 

"A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven, and we look 
with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of 
beauty. Sweet and beautiful! The fairest and the most spotless! is it notapity 
to see them bowed down, or devoured by grief inexorable, wasting in disease, pining 
with long pain, or cut off suddenly in their prime? We may deserve grief, but why 
should women be unhappy? Except that we know that Heaven chastens those whom 
it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials to make their pure spirits more 
pure."— Thackeray. 



T 



HIS is to be a chapter of pleasure and pain ; of joy and 
sorrow. Of joys as great as mortal can safely endure, 




United States Capitol. 

snd of sorrows greater still, for they crushed the soul and 
pressed the stricken body well nigh into the grave. 
■ Ida Saxton was now Mrs. William McKinlev, Jr. They 
had taken the marriage vow on January 25th, i S 7 r , the cere- 
mony being held in the Presbyterian Church. The new and 
handsome church building had just been completed and the 



SUNSHINE AND KCLIPSE. 



17 



wedding was in the nature of a dedicatory service in more 
senses than one. The acquaintance of the bride and groom 
was large and the church was jammed. The writer of this 
was the reporter of that occasion, and he has before him his 
own somewhat lengthy account of the wedding. The local 
particulars would not interest the reader. Heart of lover and 
beloved could wish for nothing more gracious or beauteous. 
It is proper to say here that while Mrs. McKinley had been of 
her family's, the Presbyterian faith, after her marriage she 
became a communicant of the Methodist Church to which her 







These are small photos of Major and Mrs. McKinley taken in January, 1871, in New 
York City, during their wedding trip. This pair, neatly framed, constitutes one of Mrs. 
McKinley's highly-prized parlor decora! inns. 

husband belonged. After the wedding the newly- married 
couple took instant flight, as usual. In order to be by them- 
selves they went to the crowded cities of the East. 

On their return home from their wedding trip they at once 
as the saying is, set up housekeeping. They gathered togethei 
their household gods and set them up around the fireside in 
the house in which they live to-day. That house is now the 
Mecca of the hopes and aspirations of the powerful political 
party which has controled the destinies of the United States 
almost continuously since the year 1861. It is the party which 
conquered the rebellion, freed the slave, restored the Union, 



l8 SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 

and which has given to history many of the most honored and 
illustrious names in modern times. To have conferred such a 
distinction on the house in which he lives it is easy to infer that 
the handsome soldier boy who was caught and held fast by 
a pair of blue eyes peering through the little bank-wicket 
must have been disporting himself somewhat conspicuously 
over the high arena of the great American Nation. 

Such has indeed been the case, and some note has got to be 
made of the matter in order to make this history intelligible. 
It can as well be done right now ; but it must be done rather 
grudgingly, for there are already whole libraries about Major 
McKinley, while ours is only to be one little booklet about 
Mrs. McKinley. 

During the first six years after his marriage Major McKinley 
had the ups and downs that befall a young lawyer. The 
average grade was up, and at a sharp angle. In 1876 he was 
elected to Congress where his district kept him steadily and 
busily employed until 1891. Perhaps it would be more correct 
to say that he kept himself well employed, for his grade mark 
in Congress was also continuously upward, and also at a sharp 
angle. During his last term he was chairman of the Ways 
and Means Committee, the most conspicuous station on the 
floor of the House of Representatives. The law bearing his 
name was the most important measure passed by Congress 
since the war. 

In 1S91, a year noted for wide-spread relapse to Democracy, 
he was elected Governor of Ohio by 26,000 majority ; in 1893 
he was re-elected by over 80,000 majority. To all the high 
offices which he has filled with such striking tokens of public 
approbation he had been nominated by acclamation. He was 
recognized as the most formidable champion, and the most 
powerful defender of distinctively Republican principles. The 
climax of his career was his almost unanimous nomination for 
President by the National Republican Convention at St. Louis 
on June [8th, 1S96. The reader now understands why the 
McKinley residence lias been spoken of as the Republican 
Mecca. 

And now. to go back : In 1N71 this house was the home of as 
devoted a pair of lovers as can he produced from the pages of 
any poem or novel. Their future was radiant with the promise 
of ev rv joy. Both were healthy, handsome ; both of pioneer 



SUNSHINE AND ECLIPSE. 



19 



American stock with marked records for longevity. His boy- 
soldier history gave him a title to consideration possessed by 
few of his age. Both were well educated ; well enough to 
know that real education is without set bounds, and that school 
time should last while life lasts. The Major's scholastic drill 
had been peculiar. While others of his age were following 
Xenophon and Caesar, he trudged his way up and down the 
Virginias. His Xenophon and Caesar were Grant and Sheri- 
dan. He had no Greek dictionary, but he had a well-worn 
knapsack and a good musket. His college was the tented field ; 
his recitations were made under the smoky canopy of battle. 
His diploma was an honor to himself and it was satisfactory to 
his young wife. Both were social favorites. They were not 
rich ; though if wealth could have taken measure in lofty re- 
solves Major McKinley would have been a rich man from the 
start. Gold and bonds would have shriveled all that ; he was 
most fortunate in his poverty. 

The first event to ruffle the even flow and tenor of the new 

household was 
Heaven's best gift to 
deserving young 
parents — a baby. 
That was Christmas 
day, 1 87 1. The baby 
waschristened Katie, 
after Mrs. McKin- 
ley 'smother. About 
thirteen mouths after- 
wards, April 1, 1873, 
the family circle re- 
ceived another addi- 
tion ; another little 
girl who got the name 
of Ida. Under favor- 
ing auspices the 
young mother's cup 
of happiness would 
have been full to 
overflowing. She has 

Katie McKinley ° 

always loved chil- 
dren. The maternal instinct in her betrays itself with smiles 





Notification Committee — Photographe 




:he Porch of Major McKinley's Home. 



22 



SKETCH OP MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 



and gooduess on every occasion. If more kindly stars could 
only have beamed upon the destiny of these children, and upon 
her own life, what a world of sorrow might have been averted, 
and how great might have been her joy ! 

Mrs. McKinley had already tasted the bitterness of final 
parting from loved ones. Her grandfather Saxton and her 
grandmother Dewalt, most lovable people, in whose close com- 
panionship she had grown to womanhood, both had passed 
away; the one a short time before, and the other a few months 
after her marriage. In March, 1873, less than fifteen months 
after the birth of her first child, her own mother died. She, 
herself, was the oldest daughter — daughter and almost sister. 
Many who read this have seen their mothers consigned to the 
narrow house. They J- now what it means, Others do not, 
and cannot. 

New and still graver trials awaited the young mother. The 
ligament of love that unites parent to child is much the largest 
at the parent end. The shock of its severance is proportion- 
ately greater. In August, 1S73, the baby, Ida, was borne to 
the cemetery. She was a little less than five months old. To 




Residence of Governor McKinley'sMother. 

the great world the sweet little baby had no history; but in 
her mother's memory treasure-house she was a jewel far above 
all this earth had ever seen. In June, 1876, Katie, the first- 
born, was laid in her bed of earth along side the grassy mound 
of her baby sister. Katie was three years and a half old, to a 






SUNSHINE AND ECLIPSE. 23 

day. Her identity was established. Her traits, her promise, 
could be seen. She was sweet and good, and centered upon 
her golden head the rays of unbounded love. 

These cruel separations, coming one after another in quick 
succession, prostrated Mrs. McKinley so that for many months 
her own life hung suspended on a very slender thread. Her 
nervous system, most sensitive and high strung, was almost 
wrecked. The wounds upon her heart have never been fully 
healed. The most eminent specialists have failed to restore 
the equipoise of perfect health. There is no defined malady 
or disease; none of the irritability of feeble selfishness or pros- 
tration. When the enchanting dream of life in the companion- 
ship of her cherished babes was obscured by the sharp, quick 
eclipse of death she reeled and fell, it is true, but into strong 
and loving arms, where, cradled by patience and goodness 
beyond the reach of words, and soothed by the healing hand 
of time, she has been restored to the shining circle of those 
she had held most dear. 

" We do not know the value of our grief 
Till we look back upon it from afar, 
And then, when time has given us relief, 
It shines upon us like a quiet star." 



Chapter IV. 
Foundations of Faith. 

"The hcisrlits by great men reached and kept 

Were not attained by sudden flight, 

But they, while their companions slept , 

Were toiling upward in the night. "' 

— [.Longfellow.] 

STRICKEN by cruel bereavement, as Mrs. McKinley has 
been, and with physical strength so impaired that she 
has not, for a score of years, walked without assistance, it is 
still not impossible, but probable, that she may have been an 




Ohio State Capitol. 

important factor in the equipment of the man who now seems 
destined to be the next ruler of the American Nation. Her hus- 
band is already the nomineeof his party for President. The cam- 
paign of the candidates was most interesting, and disclosed the 
fact that Major McKinley was everywhere the popular favorite. 
He was in it the choice of the professional politicians — most of 
that class were his avowed opponents. He was without family 
or other prestige more than falls to the lot of any American 
born of industrious, God-fearing parents. He had been a sol- 

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FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH. 



25 



dier, but his highest military grade was comparatively humble. 
He lived in hotels and had no wealth, no sumptuous establish- 
ment which enabled him to entertain and impress the social 
world. He had only his invalid wife and himself. 

It is true that his devotion to his wife has few parallels. It 
has been unceasingly, sensitively watchful. None could see, 
or know of it, without being touched. A strong admiration 
for him would be the inevitable result. This nation is made 
up, not only of Republicans and Democrats; of protectionists 
and free-traders. It is made up of parents and children, of 
husbands and wives. Human nature, human goodness, con- 
secration, self-sacrifice, open the door to our favor; at the very 
least they oil the hinges, however rusted with prejudices and 
partisanisms. 

In all the annals of chivalry there isno more beautiful example 
of manly self-sacrifice and of womanly gratefulness. 1 This 
domestic state, however, could not be utilized as an object 
lesson. It was too sacred a thing, in anybody's case, to be 
bandied about in the public prints. Nevertheless, in these 
newspaper times, it was inevitable that it should get into print ; 
but for the honor of the press it must be said that these things 
have only been alluded to with the greatest respect, even by 
Major McKinley's political opponents. A sketch of Mrs. Mc- 
Kinley must have some reference to this circumstance, especi- 
ally since the nomination; after the election, and in farther 
remote years, it will be sure to have a place among the most 
gracious traditions incidental to the private life of American 
Presidents. 

The personal circle of those who could have been thus 
directly influenced was necessarily comparatively small at best. 
The wide-spread favor of the people toward Major McKinley 
is more largely due to something else; is due. in fact, to his 
achievements as a legislator, and to his powerful advocacy of 
political principles and methods on the public forums of the 
Nation. The preparation for such labors as he has accom- 
plished, necessarily presupposes seclusion, exhaustive study 
and profound thought. 

Excepting during the occupancy of his seat in the sessions 
of Congress Mrs. McKinley lias been at her husband's side 
during all his public life. He has thus been spared the ex- 
hausting and time-consuming inroads made nn the lives of 



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SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 



public men by the exactions of modern society life. Her edu- 
cation, reading, temperament and perspicacity eminently fitted 
her for his useful and helpful companionship. He was a great 
social favorite, but he needed no other society ; his place was 
at her side. And it was there, in that pure atmosphere, sanc- 
tified by love, by sorrow, and by supremest devotion that Major 
McKinley built the foundations of that faith in himself, of that 
stately reputation for patriotic statesmanship, which assures to 
him the highest token of approbation within the gift of a free 
people. 

The comforts of modern travel permit Mrs. McKinley to ac- 




Major and Mrs. McKinley. 
I'l'oni :i photograph taken in San Francisco Id 1881. 

company her husband wherever she desires to go. Journeying 
agrees with her and she takes great delight in it, both by reason 
of the ever changing scenes and experiences thus afforded, and 
of her lively pleasure in witnessing the distinguished honors 
which are showered upon her husband in every part of the 
land. Mrs. McKinley is quite capable of making his friends 
her friends. She has assisted at very many crowded receptions, 
often as the central figure, and if she becomes the mistress of the 




FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH. 27 

White House she will probably be able to recognize as large a 
circle of personal acquaintances as any lady who has-ever pre- 
sided over the Executive Mansion. 

Her philosophy will make her fully equal to the demands 
imposed by the more exalted station to which she may be 
called. These demands could not well be greater then t hau now. 
She has thousands of visitors. To 
callers she makes no secret of her 
physical weakness, but smilingly 
points to her nearby gold-headed 
cane as one of her fast friends. In 
close proximity also are two little 
rocking chairs, her Katie's, and 
thai of her own babyhood, which 
bring the heads of her little visitors 
just high enough to get an affec- 
tionate caress from her beautiful 
white hand. She talks well and 
listens well. Her manner is so .„ „,..,. .. „. . 

Mrs. William McKinley 

natural and unrestrained that the Photographedatcoimnbus, o., during 

• . . her husband's term as Governor. 

visitor is sure to carry away a most 

gentle memory of her ; and it will not be her fault if this good 
opinion fails to include within its span the Republican candi- 
date for the Presidency of the Nation. 

It can be taken for granted that the illustrations contained 
in this booklet will gratify the wishes of those who desire a 
satisfactory impression in regard to Mrs. McKinley's person- 
ality. It is true that certain writers endeavor, by printed 
words and phrasings, to depict her features and peculiarities. 
Such descriptions leave only a confused idea, or no idea at all, 
of personal appearance, while photo-engravings, such as are 
found in these pages, speak so instantly and clearly to the eye 
as to leave nothing more or better to be desired. 

Her life is already gracefully tinted with embellishments 
derived from White House experiences. She was the most 
intimate friend and confidante of the wife of President Hayes. 
She often presided at the White House during the absence of 
the President's family. Another member of President Haves' 
family was Miss Piatt, the attractive niece of Mrs. Hayes 
These three ladies were much together. President Haves and 
Major McKinley were, themselves, on that brothcrlv footing 



2-8 SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 

engendered during their campaigns in the Twenty-third Ohio 
regiment. 

This interesting group, three ladies and two gentlemen, 
lacked equilibrium. This defect was remedied by General Rus- 
sell Hastings who, by the consent of Miss Piatt, was accorded a 
place on the scales. General Hastings was also of the Twenty- 
Third Ohio, and had had his hero-metal tested by battle, in- 
volving every sacrifice but life. The trysting place of these 
lovers was the drawing room of Mrs. McKinley at her hotel. 
They were married in the White House. If the people's will 
places Major and Mrs McKinley in the president's house, 
those same people will by no means be offended if they see, 
among the near and close intimates of the president's family, 
the dignified form of the tall, lame man who was mowed to the 
earth by the iron hail at the Sheridan battle of Winchester, 
ami of his lovely wife, the niece of Lucy Webb Hayes. 

After fourteen years' almost continuous residence in Wash- 
ington, Major and Mrs. McKinley spent about a year in Canton. 
During this period political campaigning made heavy drafts 
on the Major's time, and his absences were many and pro- 
longed. Fortunately for Mrs. McKinley, there was waiting 
for her a home such as she could most have desired, in the 
house in which she was born and raised. The heads of the 
family were Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Barber, who are the own- 
ers of the old family homestead. Mrs. Barber, as before stated, 
is Mrs. McKinley's only sister. Her only brother, Mr. George 
D. Saxton, a bachelor gentleman, is also a member of the 
family. 

Mrs. Barber has, in certain respects, been more favored than 
her sister, first by good health ; she is also the mother of seven 
children. Several of these are old enough to be in attendance 
at college. The oldest daughter, Miss Mary, is a beautiful 
young lady, and when at home, is very often seen near her 
aunt. During bis last year at Columbus Governor McKinley 
made a tour of the State for the purpose of reviewing the sev- 
eral camps of the Ohio National Guard. By invitation of the 
Governor and his wife, Miss Barber, Miss Grace McKinley, 
the Governor's niece, and a number of other -.highly -favored 
young ladies, were of the party. The newspapers of the State 
vied with each other in saying finest things about the attract- 




WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 



30 SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 

ive character of the escort with which the Governor and his 
wife had provided themselves. Mrs. McKinley takes a deep 
interest in the welfare of her sister's children, and her tem- 
porary home among them was greatly enjoyed. Not infre- 
quently she gratified her fondness for the nearness of the 
little ones, by having some of the younger members of her 
sister's flock in her own circle during her residence at Colum- 
bus, which extended from January 1891, to January 1895. 

" No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears, 
No cent that twinkling hangs from beauty's ears, 
Not the bright stars which night's blue arch adorn, 
Nor rising sun that gilds the vernal morn. 
Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows 
Down virtue's manly cheek for other's woes." 

—[Dr. Darwin.] 



Chapter V. 
Apotheosis of Home. 

" Borne is where the bearl is. 
In dwelling great or small; 
There is many a stately mansion, 
That's never a home at all." 

PRETTY stories about the lovers get wings, such as that 
of the sly reporter who surprised their signal line be- 
tween the State House grounds and a hotel window which 




Residence of Governor and Mrs. McKinley 
This is the house in which thej commenced their married life, and In which they ncn 
live. The lawn in front was a handsome green, until Jnne 18th, the day of Governor 
McKinley's nomination at St. Louis. The visiting crowds on that day destroyed the 
grass, flower-beds, and a considerable portion of the fence. Delegations from various 
parts of the country visit tiii^ place daily. The speeches are from the front porch. Those 
of Senator Thurston, Chairman of the Notification com mil tec ami Governor McKinley's 
response, on June 27th, have been the most noted, thus far. 

served as the invalid's watch-tower : also that of the eleven- 
year-old Buckeye girl who snatched off her red petticoat and 
safely signaled from certain destruction a train carrying 
Frenchmen to the Chicago World's fair, and who, through 
their, and the interposition of the Governor's household, gol 
the cross of the Legion of Honor from the president of the 

( 31 ) 



32 SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 

French Republic. Mrs. McKinley's more amiable weaknesses 
are children, flowers, and fine needle-work. There are in 
several cities gentle legends of a White Lady who stops her 
carriage and calls to her side little ones that have attracted 
her attention ; also of pretty gifts, made by her own hands, 
distributed among the " administration babies " or the teuder 
bairns of her husband's official family. And there are other 
stories, true ones, which show a calm strength where strong 
men have wavered, a will of finely-tempered steel to brave 
impending calamity. The flowers are nearest of kin. They 
are with her always. Fast fall the Governor was on one of his 
famous tours, speaking at every station. In Iowa one morn- 
ing he addressed several acres of people from the rear of his 
car, then sat down to breakfast. He heard the clatter and 
clamor of little girls trying to reach him. He came to their 
rescue and was rewarded by a big bunch of flowers. Turn- 
ing to his secretary he said : " Smith, take those posies, 
especially the wild ones, wrap them in wet cloth and express 
them to Mrs. McKinley with a tag telling her how I came by 
them." That incident needs no comment. 

After the nomination the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland 
sent her a basket of roses four feet square bearing this inscrip- 
tion : " With congratulations on the nomination of your 
noble husband to the highest office in the gift of the Amer- 
ican people." 

There is in Canton a Flower Mission — a mission of young 
ladies aiming to soften the hard asperities of hospital life. 
Sweet flowers and sweeter charity walk hand in hand. Mrs. 
McKinley's nieces are members, and she is a fervent patroness 
of this charming guild. 

Many of the nobler traits of Governor McKinley's character 
were made conspicuously obvious during his two terms as 
Governor of Ohio. During this period his extraordinary leg- 
islative record was supplemented by a no less brilliant career 
as the Executive Chief of one of the foremost commonwealths 
in the Union. The great favor with which he was regarded 
was the source of intensest delight to that most fragile and 
dependent lady, who lived, moved, and had her being in him. 

The functions of a Governor are to some extent of a social 
character and, thanks to her constantly, though slowly 



APOTHEOSIS OF HOME. 



33 



improving health and strength, she was better able to enter 
into the spirit and enjoyment of these phases of her husband's 
life than she had ever been in Washington. 

As the wife of the Chief Magistrate, she did her part, and 




Mrs. Nancy McKinley, 
Mother of Governor McKinley. siir was born at New Lisbon, Ohio, In I8f9. 
Her maiden name was Allison, the family bi ing related t<> that < • t Senator Alli- 
son, of Iowa. 

did it well. They had their home in a hotel, as usual. In 
their spacious apartments she was always accessible, and her 
circle of friendships was greatly enlarged. The first hotel in 
which they lived was burned during one of their absences. 
While the destruction was almost complete, the personal 



34 



SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 



effects of Mrs. McKinley were saved with comparatively little 
loss. She had endeared herself to the hotel people, as she 
does to all who come within the sphere of her influence, and 
their first thought was to rescue from the flames the things 
held dear by the Governor's good wife. She can well be par- 
doned for the exquisitely grateful terms in which she refers to 
this instance of personal devotion, and perhaps of self-sacrifice, 

on the part of her friends. 

Daring their stay at Col- 
umbus, visits to Canton 
were much more frequent 
than during their residence 
in Washington, and they 
generally stopped with the 
Governor's mother. This 
lady, now in herSSth 3'ear, 
is a widow, her husband 
having died three years ago. 
Her family consists of her 
daughter, Miss Helen Mc- 
Kinley, a grandson of six- 
teen, and Miss Grace Mc- 
Kinley, who was mentioned 
in a previous chapter. The 
two last named are orphans, 
who have been taken into 
the protecting home and guardianship of their grandmother. 
On holidays, and on her anniversary days, Governor and Mrs. 
McKinley were quite sure to be seen at Grandmother Mc- 
Kinley's, by which name she is familiarly known to all her 
townspeople. Notwithstanding her great age, reaching within 
twelve years of a century's span, she is in the enjoyment of 
g.ood health, adequate strength, and she is a delighted witness 
of the passing events which shed such renown on her illus- 
trious Mill. 

The house in which Major and Mrs. McKinley commenced 
housekeeping immediately after their marriage was sold after 
he went to Congress. Happily, it was unoccupied and avail- 
able for them on his retirement from the Governorship. They 
took immediate possession and were very soon engaged in mak- 




Miss Giace McKinley. 



APOTHEOSIS OF HOME. 35 

ing preparations for the proper celebration of their silver 
wedding anniversary, which occurred on January 25th, 1896. 
Mrs. McKinley had looked forward to this occasion with a spirit 
brim full of gratitude and thankfulness. 

True, the old home had upon it the shadow of sorrowful mem- 
ories, but the healing balm of time had worked its cure for a 
score of years, during which the grass rootlets also, had woven a 
thick carpet of green over the resting places of the loved ones. 
And her own broken and fragile frame, snatched from death's 
door, and, during all these years, caressed by infinite love and 
goodness, had been restored to an ever widening circle of joy 
and of friends. Friends of her young girlhood, school friends, 
friends from the familiar places at Washington, friends who 
gladdened her fireside under the protecting shadows of Ohio's 
Capitol, many near and dear friends from Cleveland. For 
representatives of all these saluted her with felicitations and 
good wishes on the occasion of her silver anniversary. Her 
assistants comprised the nearer group of relatives, her own and 
her husband's, already named, and others. The silver wed- 
ding was all that heart could wish — Canton had never seen its 
like. 

The home-coming from Columbus was a deeply interesting 
episode in the life of the McKinley family. They gravitated 
back to Canton realizing that " Home is where the heart is." 
For some time previously both husband and wife had pressed 
their nearer friends, discreetly and in an undertone of appre- 
hension, for an opinion as to the Governor's likelihood of 
regaining his lost clientele. To be sure the newspapers were 
already canvassing the candidates, but on his part — on their 
part — there was no air of assumption. Neither one of them 
ever dropped a word, either about themselves or others, other 
candidates included, the recalling of which could cause them 
the slightest embarrassment. Apparently they had come home 
to stay. 

Politics are uncertain ; perhaps Governor McKinley did 
dream of winning fortune and fame over the trial-table in the 
courts of justice. If he did, the dream had a rude, quick 
awakening. For they had hardly been well settled in their new- 
house when the nominating campaign burst forth into wildest 
fury. In the space of a few weeks it had compelled the 



36 SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 

McKinley house to put on somewhat the air of political head- 
quarters. Postmen groaned under their loads. Noted men 
came daily. Place was made for a long-distance telephone 
in one end of the dining-room. Private secretary, stenog- 
rapher and type- writers monopolized the largest upstairs 
room. The Governor's office is at the right on entering the 
lower hall. At the left is a large and handsomely furnished 
suite, consisting of a commodious and elegant parlor, and the 
private rooms of the family. These rooms are sacred to Mrs. 
y- '-;' ^-^-^_ n McKinley. After the assembling 

( of the Convention, place had to be 

made in the upper hall for an in- 
*■..•*&?■ strument connected by private wire 

to the hall of the St. Louis Con- 
*"** vention. 

About 5 o'clock, June iSth, the 
jk last day of the Convention, the 

i'^f operator at the wire called down- 
stairs announcing that Senator 
Thurston, chairman of the Conven- 
tion, had ordered the roll-call of 
the States. Mrs. McKin ey sat in 
Miss Mary Barber t j ie p ar ior surrounded by a group of 

friends. The Governor and a few of his own friends occupied his 
office. Haifa hundred neighbors, mostly provided with score- 
cards of States, sat on, or near, the front porch. An attendant 
called out the votes of the States from ''Alabama" downward, 
so that all could hear. When "Ohio" was reached the ag- 
gregate for McKinley fell only a few votes short of the number 
required to nominate. The solid vote of Ohio completed the 
work, and William McKinley stood forth the choice and 
nominee of the National Republican party for the office of 
President of the United States. The Governor crossed the 
hall, and going up to the group of ladies, kissed his wife and 
his mother. 

Of course there was a rush of feet to reach the man of the 
hour and be among the earliest to offer congratulations. Those 
present expected to see a lull in this interesting ceremony as 
soon as they had finished taking the Governor by the hand. 
But on looking out toward the street there was to be seen the 



APOTHEOSIS OF HOME. 37 

swiftly coming advance column of a hurrying, perspiring crowd 
no man could number. Bells, steam whistles and the boom of 
cannon, had heralded the surely expected news, as certainly as 
if written against the sky, that the soldier boy of Canton, who, 
thirty years ago, was a youth to fortune and to fame unknown, 
had been nominated by a powerful political party as its first 
choice as the ruler of the foremost Nation in the world. Forty 
minutes later came a train of over twenty crowded cars from 
Allian.e, a neighboring city on the east ; a few minutes after 
that a still larger crowd from Massillon, a city on the west, 
and at 7 o'clock, a train of forty-one cars loaded with 3,500 
visitors from Akron, twenty-five miles to the north. There 
were speeches, and music, and speeches. The blaze of colored 
lights filled the sky, and the air was discordant with rasping 
sounds far into the night. 

It must not be supposed that, during the first period of this 
generous human effervescence, the heroine of our story had been 
forgotten or neglected. The better-half of the man whose name 
rode upon every echo, still occupied her central place in her 
group of friends. Portraits of her little daughter, of her father 
and mother, of President and Mrs. Hayes, and others whose 
memories were part and parcel with her own life, smiled at her 
from the walls. The venerable form of the Governor's mother 
presided benignantly over the scene. 

In between the black ranks of men many ladies found their 
winding \va_v to reach the women of the household. A long 
procession of ladies and gentlemen streamed in and out of the 
parlor. All were graciously received, and all wore pleased 
faces. Naturally, the centers of attraction were the Governor's 
aged mother, and the sweet-faced woman who everyone be- 
lieved would be established in the White House as the First 
Lady of the Land. 

While all this was going on below the tune played upon the 
wire in the upper hall had undergone a great change. The 
Convention was over. From all over our broad land, and from 
friends across the seas, came the swift, warm words of felicita- 
tion. From the Governor's wire, and from the down-town 
offices, the telegraph poured forth its torrent of yellow slips. 
harbingers of the joy of the people, until late in the night. 
Not from men alone, to the Governor, but from men and 



38 SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 

women to Mrs. McKiuley ; from friends she had known, and 
from another multitude of those whose hearts had been melted 
by the pathos of her story, and in whose aspirations her hus- 
band's name stood transfigured as the symbol of deliverance 
and hope. 



40 SKETCH OF MRS. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 

Scenes of the character shown in picture on preceding page, 
are very frequently to be witnessed in front of the McKinley 
house, which stands about 80 feet from the street. Three or four 
delegations, coming from points in Ohio and other States, often 
call upon the Governor daily. At times the dense crowds pack 
the street and yard ; the latter has lost its pretty coating of green. 

The delegation which is being addressed by the Governor, 
as shown in the picture, came from Niles, the village in which 
he was born. The exchange of sentiments was full of feeling 
on both sides. A peculiar interest was added to this occasion 
by the attendance, among the delegates, of a large number of 
the hands from the tin-plate works at Niles, an establishment 
that was brought into existence by the McKinley law. They 
bore a number of tin banners with unique inscriptions. 

A number of passers-by seemed to have tarried for a moment, 
and the day being propitious the artist has been able to produce 
a pretty picture. 



POSTSCRIPT. 

SINCE the last line of our booklet was written, and while 
waiting for the printer's proofs and the engraver's pic- 
tures, a world of things has happened. The crowds keep 
coming ; delegates representing themselves and others, and 
visitors with congratulations. The tramp of many feet has 
left its imprint on the front yard. The pretty coverlet of green 
lias been folded up and spirited away, leaving only an expanse 
of bare, well-trodden earth. Mrs. McKinley's beds and bands 
of flowers are only a memory. 

The most noteworthy of these visiting bodies was the Noti- 
fication Committee, appointed by the St. Louis Convention 
to formally apprise Governor McKinley of his nomination. 
There was one member for each State. The visit of the Com- 
mittee was made June 22. Senator Thurston was the spokes- 
man. His speech, and the response of Governor McKinley, 
were delivered on the front porch. Near by sat the Governor's 
wile and mother, Mrs. Thurston, and tin- wives of other mem- 
bers of the Committee. After partaking of a collation, which 
had been spread in a tent for the visiting parties, the great 



Postscript. 41 

outside crowd had the pleasure of hearing many short, but 
eloquent speeches from various members of the Committee. 
At the end, the photographer begged for a moment of quiet in 
which he took the picture of the Committee presented on 
another page. 

When not occupied in receiving or addressing callers, the 
Governor, accompanied by Mrs. McKinley, may be seen almost 
any da} 7 , taking an airing for the latter's health, in what the 
reporters are pleased to call his "modest" carriage. The ex- 
pression may correctly be taken as indicating the absence of 
the pretentious style, liveries, etc., with which people of 
prominence often provide themselves. 

Many of the large newspapers have their special represen- 
tatives in Canton, whose printed letters are generally charac- 
terized by great correctness and ability. Others revel in 
imaginary things and occasionally give out that the Republican 
candidate and his wife are going to spend a time at the seaside, 
or in this, or that city or resort. Thus far in life they have 
never had either the time, money, or disposition for that class 
of indulgences. Undoubtedly they will keep to the even 
tenor of their way right here in Canton until duty shall 
point out another path. 

Speaking of duty suggests this query : shutting politics with 
its din and fury out of the question, how could all that is good, 
and pure, and gracious in American life and tradition more truly 
honor itself, and be honored, than for a Free People by its free 
voice to invite this gieat and good statesman to exchange his 
vine-clad cottage for a temporary residence in its White House 
at Washington ? But no horoscope of his future, no vista of 
" pleasures and palaces," would have any charm for him unless 
his better-half was at his side, whether his lot be cast in vine- 
clad cottage, or in the official home of the ruler of that Free 
People in whose public service the best years of his life have 
been spent. 



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